Service Details
Name:
 BENNETT
Given Name:
 MALCOLM OSWALD
Initials:
 M O
Service No:
 8682
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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Date of Birth:
 1884-11-10
Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of Mary Rheda Preston (remarried) and the late George Lenox Bennett, of Komgha, Cape Province, South Africa. Living at Mbabene, Swaziland
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 A. 13.

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